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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enrichment is enrichment, it will improve grades and test scores, just like introducing academic topics at home will. Both practices are reasonably normal in many families.

Buying a book or enrolling in a class to study for a specific test is prep. SAT prep was new when I was in HS and many people thought it was problematic. Over time it has become normalized. Prepping kids for intelligence exams is not likely to be normalized and the CoGAT and NNAT is a proxy for an intelligence exams. They have diminished in their importance in AAP selection because a large enough group are prepping g for them. Classes are openly advertised and books are sold at HMART and other stores.

Plenty of kids with scores in the 130’s and strong iReady scores are accepted. People don’t believe scores in the 140’s and iReadys in the 90th-95th percentile, the scores don’t match and point to prep. [/quote]

Huh, my kid last year had low-ish iReadys (mid-80th percentile, not even high enough to get into level II at our school) and CogAT in the high 130s and she was accepted.

Most of you people who talk about how the committee can spot prep a mile away are full of it. You have no idea how the committee works and should admit it.

And yeah, we prepped. We got a book and did it. No regrets that my kid understood how the questions worked. We "prepped" in other ways in that we introduced her to logic games early, built math skills into her early childhood, taught her to read ourselves, and taught her spelling over the summer. Parents are, after all, a child's first and primary teachers.[/quote]

This isn't what people mean by 'prep' ffs. [/quote]

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